Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer

Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a < Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer > to join the team.

The Manufacturing Test Engineering team collaborates with Microsoft’s product design, validation, software, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, as well as global manufacturing partners, to develop and deploy test solutions for the hardware that powers Microsoft’s cloud services. The team defines manufacturing test strategies, develops automated test hardware and software, ensures sufficient test coverage, and uses production data to improve product quality, reliability, yield, throughput, and cost.

In this role, you will own manufacturing test solutions from early product development and New Product Introduction (NPI) through production ramp and sustaining. You will investigate complex hardware, software, firmware, and manufacturing issues; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions; and deliver robust, scalable, and reusable test solutions across global factory environments.

We are looking for a passionate, curious, and collaborative engineer with experience in server systems and manufacturing test. The candidate has a technical foundation in Compute and GPU-based AI platforms, test automation, system-level debugging, and manufacturing data analysis. You will help ensure that Microsoft’s newest cloud hardware is manufactured efficiently and delivered to customers on time and at the highest levels of quality.

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Responsibilities

• Develop manufacturing test hardware, software, firmware, and automation solutions to validate product and system-level functionality.
• Define and implement robust, scalable, reusable, and adaptable test strategies covering new product introduction, mass production, repair, and sustaining operations.
• Analyze manufacturing yield, test results, and failure trends to identify systemic hardware, software, firmware, and process issues; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Define test coverage, test flows, equipment requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria to prevent manufacturing escapes and meet product quality goals.
• Improve test cycle time, throughput, capacity, reliability, and cost through process simplification, automation, statistical analysis, and data-driven optimization.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators for test-system health, product quality, manufacturing yield, and operational performance.
• Support factory deployment, qualification, readiness assessment, configuration management, bill of materials, and engineering change processes for manufacturing test systems.
• Partner with design, validation, NPI, manufacturing, sourcing, and supplier teams to assess technical risks, resolve production issues, and ensure continuity of supply.
• Develop and maintain test requirements, technical specifications, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and other manufacturing documentation.
• Incorporate security, sustainability, serviceability, and reliability principles throughout the test-system lifecycle.
• Evaluate and apply AI and machine-learning capabilities to improve test coverage, failure prediction, anomaly detection, and manufacturing intelligence.
• Communicate technical findings, project status, risks, schedules, and recommendations clearly to engineering teams and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field; **or**
• Master’s degree in a related field and 3+ years of experience in enterprise computing, consumer electronics, hardware test engineering, manufacturing engineering, or hyperscale supply-chain systems; **or**
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 4+ years of relevant industry experience; **or equivalent experience**.
• Experience developing or deploying manufacturing test solutions for complex electronic, computing, server, networking, storage, or electromechanical products.
• Experience with system-level debugging, failure analysis, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action processes.
• Programming or scripting experience using languages such as Python, C#, C++, Java, or equivalent.
• Experience analyzing manufacturing or test data using statistical methods and translating findings into engineering actions.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive technical projects and collaborate across engineering disciplines, suppliers, and manufacturing sites.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in English.

Preferred Qualifications (Desired):

• Doctorate and 3+ years, Master’s degree and 6+ years, or Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing, new product introduction, contract manufacturers, or global manufacturing operations.
• Experience designing automated test equipment, fixtures, diagnostics, test frameworks, or factory data systems.
• Knowledge of server architecture, networking, storage, power, thermal systems, firmware, or rack-level integration.
• Experience with statistical process control, design of experiments, yield improvement, reliability engineering, or failure-mode analysis.
• Experience using AI or machine learning for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, failure classification, or test optimization.
• Experience managing technical schedules, risks, engineering changes, equipment readiness, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Ability to influence technical direction and deliver results across teams without direct authority.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.